October 8th, 2018 -- by Bacchus
My Fierce Aunties
There are a lot of different origin myths surrounding my namesake Bacchus, but according to the researchers at Sotheby’s, one strain of the myths has it that the daughters of the titan Atlas were caretakers of the infant Bacchus. (He was constantly at risk of being murdered by a jealous Hera, who was wife to his father Zeus, but who was emphatically not his mother.) This notion (if not much else in the various myths) seems to have inspired Paul Alexandre Alfred Le Roy when he painted Les Filles d’Atlas (Atlas’ Daughters):
May all your aunties be as fierce and protective as mine!
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I hate to have to admit this but the first thing this post made me think of was Anna Russell’s account of Siegfried’s first encounter with Gutrune in Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung:
Russell: She is, by the way, the only woman whom Siegfried has ever met who isn’t his aunt.
(Laughter from Russell’s audience)
Russell (with mock exasperation): I’m not making any of this up you know!
Ha! Of course in this case I am using “aunties” in the informal sense of “close female informal family not actually related.”